Rooney: There's No Way I Would Have Gone To City

December 31, 2010

Wayne Rooney insists that he was never going to join Manchester City, after

“I looked out and there was about 30 there all with hoods up,” said Rooney. “With my wife and kid in the house it was just a bit intimidating, but it got calmed down. That night I’d spoken with the Glazers, the manager and David Gill. They called me to speak to me and just said the club was going to carry on moving forward and being successful. People said I was odds on to go to Man City. That was never the case. There was no way I’d have gone there anyway. “I understood some of the fans were disappointed and felt let down. But it was just one of those things I had to get right. Thankfully I have sorted it out now. I have made the right decision and made myself happy. But I didn’t even think about where I was going to go.”

Where was he going then? I mean, it stands to reason you tell the world you want to leave your current club without agreeing to go elsewhere, right? How thick does he think the fans are? That he can sit there, spewing out lie after lie, and think we’ll lap it all up, just like we used to all his ‘United for life’ bollocks.

He had been speaking to City since the summer and I bet Carlos Tevez had been promised he was joining him. Can’t believe a fucking word he says.

look scott dont let ur feelings cloud ur judgement.if he wanted he would've gone.4 how long shall we hate our own player.he made a mistake but thats all it is.he is human like all of us, the amt of money he might have been promised might have triggered it.your comments about him everytime are increasing pressure hence he underperfoms and united. suffer.to err is human but to forgive..................

I l don't believe he would have actually gone to them cunts at the wastelands..... if he had seriously thought about it he must have known the fucking stick he would have got......
I still reckon Stretford had a lot to do with that....sort of blackmailing bargaining strategy in contract negotiations. made himself look a right prick though....

I think you need to get over this Scott. We've all vented our spleens over this, time to move on. It's not like Rooney was a United fan growing up, unlike the thug, who even handed in a transfer request ffs.

I think scarfaces agent and the rat Rooney has for an agent agreed a deal with City and then Rooney decided he did not want to play ball after realising he would be making a huge mistake....thats when the shit hit the fan at wastelands with scarface....

Oh yes you would young Wayne, most of the lads new he was willing to take the short journey to the future of English/eurozone champions. He left his beloved to join you and still gets the nonsense that that caused twice a year, so don't go deluding youselves......... he's got form my red fiends.
God bless all you lot on here, and see you next year. Happy Blue Year !!!!!!!!!!!!!!

Scott I honestly don't think he would dream of going City. Of course he knew where he wanted to go, but he's hardly going to say: "Yeah I wanted to go Real Madrid or Barcelona" because that would insult the fans even more and maybe even arouse transfer speculation and rumours that they will make bids.

Look I dont like Rooney after what he said but getting pissed over the past aint gonna change anything, just get behind the team and hope our number 10, main striker gets goals, coz thats what he's getting paid millions for.

WHILST THIS SCOUSER WAS IN SO CALLED DISPUTE WITH THE CLUB HE WAS PICTURED IN THE EVENING NEWS LEAVING THE BRIDGEWATER HOSPITAL IN MANCHESTER. CHECK IT OUT IF YOU DO NOT BELIEVE ME. IT WAS STATED THAT HE WAS HAVING A CHECK UP ON HIS ANKLE. THE UNFORTUNATE THING IS THAT NOWADAYS ALL PLAYERS WHO ARE BEING SIGNED FOR CITY HAVE THEIR MEDICALS HERE.

Guys - Rooney's just bleeding you until the end of the season. Look at the economics (at least in a better way than the Glazers do). £200k for 6 months = £5.2million, he's now on contract, so you can sell him for £30m and you're still £25m in front. In January there would only have been one potential buyer and you know who that is. It is the same with Tevez. We spend an extra £2.5 million in wages then, hopefully with Champions League football secured we can let him go to Homesick City (Madrid) and get our money back. Then Ronaldo Rooney and Tevez will be back together at Real Madrid and when their Financial Fair Play books are out of kilter watch Platini and his cronies change their minds. Can you imagine the Champions League not only being dominated by English Teams but two teams bearing the name Manchester.

Fuck me get over it mate. You are forgetting what football has become. It's full of greedy cunts. It was all for money. He knew Utd would never sell him to City, he had Utd over a barrel, and him and his agent fucked them good and hard for an extra £20-30k a week. It's as straight forward as that.

With the crazy gang on the door step, he got death threats and realised if he left United both him and his family would spend the rest of their lives looking over their shoulders and under their cars!
It made be laugh him saying "But I didn't even think about where I was going to go. There was no way I would have gone to Manchester City and there was more chance of me going to City than Liverpool"
How thick can you get?

"Where was he going then? I mean, it stands to reason you tell the world you want to leave your current club without agreeing to go elsewhere, right?"

Why not? Tevez even went as far as putting in a transfer request without any idea where he was going to go. It happens.

If Rooney had plans to go to City why did he sign a new deal for much less than City would have paid him? At most he was using City to get a better deal. Not that there's any evidence he or his agent ever spoke to City.

I don't necessarily believe Rooney wanted to go to City, but he had United's pants down on the premise that he would be willing to. That's as bad, in my opinion. Move the player on for what we paid, move on. Simple.

Scott we are in a win win situation n so let's give him the benefit of the doubt. He's signed for 5years n so if he goes, it'll be on our terms. Personally believed he really fucked up n is regretting it.

process of elimination very few clubs could afford him.wife not leaving england so who does that leave chelsea or city no one else.chelsea haven't been throwing around the money last couple of years so city had to be favourites,he had very ltd options.could look at it the other way his intention was to move to spain but couldn't talk his wife into moving thats the reason the deal got done with utd.

I agree with the win win situation. If we want we could get 50 mill for him and replace him with most players in the world. He is class, but time to stop the talking and contribute to a 19th title. Then all should be forgiven. That's his job!!!

There's a story in this mornings Guardian that reckons Fergie thought Rooney was going to City. I think Fergie let the story come out about Rooney and the prostitutes because he thought he was going to City to damage his reputation!

why does this even get compared to what stevie me did?? to be fair to gerrard he probably had a fair shout handing in a transfer request, where as rooney's made no fuckin sense with our success the past few years... MOVE ON.

You will always believe what u wish had happened.he wanted to leave,he wanted to go to city....fine but that's not important anymore.the important thing is he's here.i was told don't waste your energy musing over past mistakes,draw lesson from it and apply it to future endeavours.

Is he telling the truth? Prove he isn't, this merry go round continues. I still cant and probably wont cheer the guy but I still need to see the proff that so many insist is there of him going to City, not much to ask is it.

December 31, 2010 at 19:12
oap fan says:
WHILST THIS SCOUSER WAS IN SO CALLED DISPUTE WITH THE CLUB HE WAS PICTURED IN THE EVENING NEWS LEAVING THE BRIDGEWATER HOSPITAL IN MANCHESTER. CHECK IT OUT IF YOU DO NOT BELIEVE ME. IT WAS STATED THAT HE WAS HAVING A CHECK UP ON HIS ANKLE. THE UNFORTUNATE THING IS THAT NOWADAYS ALL PLAYERS WHO ARE BEING SIGNED FOR CITY HAVE THEIR MEDICALS HERE.

What Rooney was having treatment in a Manchester hospital!!! Bloody hell even the MEN said he was having treatment and he was pictured in broad daylight not skulking about, if you want to find a conspiracy you can but really this one is a bit weak.